REVIEW: The Earth Eats Booth Is a Home Run, but Does It Lose Points for Its Limited Menu?

It’s time to dig into some EARTH EATS at the 2024 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival!

2024 Earth Eats Booth

The Earth Eats Marketplace Food Booth returns this year, having been absent from the Festival in 2023. That said, it comes back in a new way this year. If you’re familiar with Earth Eats from previous EPCOT Food and Wine Festivals, you may recall that it delivered an entire menu of plant-based offerings. But that has changed this year, and we’re here to bring you our complete review.

Menu

In addition to no longer being a plant-based booth, Earth Eats also delivers two food items that are entirely new to the Festival this year. In fact, the Red Wine-braised Beef Short Rib is clearly made for carnivores, and it’s joined by a new sweet treat: Lemon Poppy Seed Cake.

2024 Earth Eats Menu

For beverages, you can choose from Blood Orange Agua Fresca and Harken Wines Barrel Fermented Chardonnay.

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Eats

The new Red Wine-braised Beef Short Rib is plated with goat cheese polenta, puttanesca sauce, shaved pecorino, and petit herbs. 

Red Wine-braised Beef Short Rib

This dish is available for $8.50. 

The braised beef just fell apart. There was truly no need for a knife. This was juicy and absolutely melted in your mouth. This had a deep flavor profile that rounded it out to make this a super tasty dish! The goat cheese polenta was spectacular.

A citrusy dessert is also up for grabs: the Lemon Poppy Seed Cake is covered with lemon icing.

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

You can try this cake for  $4.50. 

This was light, it was airy and it did not have too much icing on top. This dessert was lovely and the lemon was not too strong. It also gets bonus points because it is so cute!

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

Drinks

The non-alcoholic Blood Orange Agua Fresca makes its way over from EPCOT’s spring event, the Flower and Garden Festival. It costs $4.75. 

Blood Orange Agua Fresca

We were a little nervous because typically there is a lot of citrus involved, but this was actually the opposite of that! It was not tart and instead it was so refreshing. This is great on a hot day and when we tried it, it felt like it was hydrating us.

If you prefer, you can also try a new wine offering at the Festival this year: Harken Wines Barrel Fermented Chardonnay for $6.

OVERALL

We found all three dishes here to be spectacular! All three items were home runs to us! We will say that we wished there were more options here, but regardless this both was so good!

Full Spread at Earth Eats

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